Cullen Vane came to Mission of Grace from Roseville, California. Although his Head Pastor had been trying to get him to go to Haiti for some time, he always knew that he didn’t really want to go for just a week, and so he put it off time and time again. On September 10, 2015 he received a jolt when he was not retained at his place of employment. Cullen knew immediately that God had closed one door only to open another, and that very afternoon he began planning his journey. Four short months later, on January 11, 2016, he was whisked off to Haiti to spend at least six months serving at Mission of Grace. That six months turned in to 11, and after a few months respite in the States, Cullen returned in May 2017 for another term.
While Cullen came to Haiti with no specific mission in mind and no preconceived notion of what he would do upon arrival, as an author he knew that Miss Lynn wanted her story and the story of Mission of Grace to be told in writing, and so that has been a large part of his purpose here. He helps to lead teams when they are here, and will spend his days in the community as a presence and an emissary for the mission.
Cullen writes: “My whole trip has been an emotional roller coaster of sorts, and in the first week I told someone, “I don’t know how I can ever leave; I don’t know how I can stay.” It has been an absolutely wonderful and rewarding opportunity to serve in the community that has so little, and it humbles me to see how so many people live lives that are just the barest step above insufficiency. But I see God’s hand at play in so many ways in the community that it warms the soul and makes waking up each morning a joy.”
While Cullen came to Haiti with no specific mission in mind and no preconceived notion of what he would do upon arrival, as an author he knew that Miss Lynn wanted her story and the story of Mission of Grace to be told in writing, and so that has been a large part of his purpose here. He helps to lead teams when they are here, and will spend his days in the community as a presence and an emissary for the mission.
Cullen writes: “My whole trip has been an emotional roller coaster of sorts, and in the first week I told someone, “I don’t know how I can ever leave; I don’t know how I can stay.” It has been an absolutely wonderful and rewarding opportunity to serve in the community that has so little, and it humbles me to see how so many people live lives that are just the barest step above insufficiency. But I see God’s hand at play in so many ways in the community that it warms the soul and makes waking up each morning a joy.”
